Barbarous savages!

[Vasco DG]

Perth, Western Australia. Where you go into a pub and order a beer and a gin and tonic and it costs you $24!

Uncicilized! Inhuman! It's like going back to the Dark Ages!

And nothing is open after six o'clock in the evening or mid-day on Saturday and you can't even get take away beer on a Sunday! It's worse than Arkansas! ;D

Pete

[Triple Jim]

I'll never forget buying a pitcher of beer on Long Island, NY around 1980, and paying $7 for it, when the same thing back in MD would have been about $3.  I'd bet that you can find a place to charge you $24 for a beer and gin and tonic in NY today without too much trouble.  They don't close at six PM though.   :D

[Vasco DG]

At $24 a round they were lucky I didn't write obscenities on their dunny wall with a turd crayon!

[Guzzistajohn]

I thought going to a different bar was an Irish guys idea of a vacation ???

[guzzisteve]

Glad you are enjoying your time off.

[lucian]

Sounds like they must have hit the tourist button on the cash register. How's a man to get properly trashed at those prices?

[blackcat]

I'll never forget buying a pitcher of beer on Long Island, NY around 1980, and paying $7 for it, when the same thing back in MD would have been about $3.  I'd bet that you can find a place to charge you $24 for a beer and gin and tonic in NY today without too much trouble.  They don't close at six PM though.   :D

Still cheaper than buying a hot dog in some locations:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/man-selling-30-hot-dogs-at-ground-zero.html

Well, PT Barnum's Museum was right around the corner until it burned down in 1851 so there is a tradition......

[kenebar]

Obviously you were mistaken for a FIFO miner.

[MotoGoosy]

Weelll, if the market will bear it.  Try renting an apartment in New York.  Run-down, tiny dumps in tenement slums (and almost all apartments in NY are slum-quality) cost $3,000 a month.

[blackcat]

Weelll, if the market will bear it.  Try renting an apartment in New York.  Run-down, tiny dumps in tenement slums (and almost all apartments in NY are slum-quality) cost $3,000 a month.

Not really.

[canuguzzi]

Cheap, apartments in SF go for $4000+ and that is just to get on the list.

Next, they'll outlaw beer anyway so get it while you can. :BEER:

[johnr]

There are times Pete, when you remind me of Cap'n Haddock.

[Late to the party]

Perth, Western Australia. Where you go into a pub and order a beer and a gin and tonic and it costs you $24!

Uncicilized! Inhuman! It's like going back to the Dark Ages!

And nothing is open after six o'clock in the evening or mid-day on Saturday and you can't even get take away beer on a Sunday! It's worse than Arkansas! ;D

Pete

Pete,

When was the last time you were in Arkansas?

Lateness.

[Vasco DG]

2013. 'Dry' counties. Good lord! It's like Saudi Arabia!

Pete

[Chuck in Indiana]

Try Indiana.  ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law..  ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like  ::) "you're kidding, right??"

[Lannis]

Try Indiana.  ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law..  ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like  ::) "you're kidding, right??"

Yes!  My God!!  Her BABY might have needed that beer to survive!!   

Anyone who can't buy enough alcohol in six days to last them for seven has a serious problem, I'd say ....

Lannis

[Guzzistajohn]

Arkansas dry counties? Ok with me, keeps out the rif raf, biker gangs, poker runs and all that nonsense. It's not hard to get a drink in a dry county anyway, just look for the old boy with the mason jar dent in the bridge of his nose😄

[Lannis]

2013. 'Dry' counties. Good lord! It's like Saudi Arabia!

Pete

Just stay out of Baltimore this week.   29 people shot, 9 killed just this past weekend.

Not that YOU would get shot, far from it, but based on recent experience, I'm thinking there will be HUGE demonstrations in the streets protesting the unnecessary and violent deaths and injuries of Baltimore citizens at the hands of ....

... Oh, wait a minute.  Never mind.

Lannis

[Vasco DG]

Yes!  My God!!  Her BABY might have needed that beer to survive!!   

Anyone who can't buy enough alcohol in six days to last them for seven has a serious problem, I'd say ....

Lannis

It's got nothing to do with 'Needing' a drink Lannis as you well know and everything to do with weirdo conservative dogma. Liking a drink of an afternoon does not mean one has a 'Problem'. Banning the sale and consumption of booze based on barely post-medieval wowserism is, in this day and age, just plain daft! If you want to encourage alcoholism and all of the other associated problems it brings with it like domestic violence and property crime what better way to achieve it than stigmatise people who like a drink so it becomes a dirty little secret that only gets done behind closed doors? Sends a great message to kids too! NOT!

Pete

[Kent in Upstate NY]

Try Indiana.  ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law..  ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like  ::) "you're kidding, right??"

They had that same stupid law in Georgia back in 1981. Ruined our Superbowl.

[Cam3512]

Just stay out of Baltimore this week.   29 people shot, 9 killed just this past weekend.

Not that YOU would get shot, far from it, but based on recent experience, I'm thinking there will be HUGE demonstrations in the streets protesting the unnecessary and violent deaths and injuries of Baltimore citizens at the hands of ....

... Oh, wait a minute.  Never mind.

Lannis

Yea, no headlines there. Nothing to protest. Just another day in the hood.

[Orange Guzzi]

Try Indiana.  ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law..  ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like  ::) "you're kidding, right??"

Chuck, ride on down on a Sunday.  My Brother bought a gas station/grocery store that has one of three licenses in the State that allows cold beer and wine sales on Sunday.  Can't leave the property on Sunday with an open container or package on Sunday though.  But you can drink all you like in the parking lot.

[Vasco DG]

 :o What sort of cro-magnon wants to drink in a parking lot? And if you want more than one beer how in hades do you get home? Apart from the obvious irresponsibility you may, if you decide to take your own vehicle, have to have a chat with  P:). If you are over the limit its boring and expensive and you may have to spend some time in a cell with a large, friendly, soddomite!

No thanks!

Pete

[Lannis]

Banning the sale and consumption of booze based on barely post-medieval wowserism is, in this day and age, just plain daft!

Pete

Good thing we've got different countries and states and counties, then ... makes room for different opinions about how to live.   Choices are good - absolute dogmatism on 24/7/365 liquor sales is not everyone's choice, nor is it a basic human right ... and maybe not even daft!!

Lannis

[Orange Guzzi]

:o What sort of cro-magnon wants to drink in a parking lot? And if you want more than one beer how in hades do you get home? Apart from the obvious irresponsibility you may, if you decide to take your own vehicle, have to have a chat with  P:). If you are over the limit its boring and expensive and you may have to spend some time in a cell with a large, friendly, soddomite!

No thanks!

Pete

There is an inside dining area, outside patio area and the walk home is not to far.  Beer is cheap also.  Free, if you know the owner.

[Vasco DG]

Well, s'not a parking lot then is it? ;D

[travelingbyguzzi]

I grew up in small town Arkansas. It was great fun on sunday to stand t the 3-way stop sign and point people towards Missouri, 50 miles north. If it was any consolation, didn't matter that it was Sunday, most of the counties in Arkansas were dry 7 days a week. Things have loosened up a bit lately. The adjoining county-Sharp County- voted itself wet a couple years ago.
Tonight, I paid $26 for 2 ales and a burger in Sunnyside WA!

[Stormtruck2]

Used to pick up cheese at the Sunnyside Dairy plant to haul to Wisconsin, to be packaged as Wisconsin cheese.  The dairy had a GREAT ice cream parlour next to it.   :food :drool

[travelingbyguzzi]

Dairygold os my client for 2 more days. Mapping a 4800' long-60' wide route for a wastewater pipe into an existing lagoon. Gonna work hard for 2 days and maybe goof off on day 3. The icecream bar is not open every day.
2weekends ago, Gail and I stopped at the Tillimook Cheese Plant in Tillimook OR for some tasty ice cream.

Bill Lovelady     is

Eskimo Spy

[Penderic]

Much much cheaper if you guys increase the size of your operation and go for volume!  ;-T

"AKA Rural Unlicensed Biofuel Manufacturing Co-op."  ;)